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Welcome to the Application Performance Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from APM experts. This Blog provides insights into the Application Performance Management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

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This video will show you how to migrate to Tivoli Data Warehouse range partition.
You will learn from this demo:
- How to migrate your existing Tivoli Data Warehouse on DB2 to range partition, so that you can take advantage of the significant performance improvement on pruning and query;
- How to verify that the migration is successful.
Direct link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siWtESryXPM
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This demo demonstrates how to use the TEDGEN tool to add event classes of a new agent into the event class name list on Tivoli Enterprise Portal, so that they can be used by EIF Slot Customization.
This video will show you how to:
- install and run TEDGEN utility to create a new MCS XML file
- use the new MCS XML file to add new event class into the Event class name list on TEP
Direct link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xBU2l3QMo
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This video is your one stop shop for learning how to set tracing on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS).
This video will show you how to:-
- Set traces on the TEPS component
- How to increase the size and number of log files
- How to check that the trace which has been set is being used by the TEPS
Direct link to YouTube: http://ow.ly/G7m8G
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This video is your one stop shop for learning how to set tracing on the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS).
This video will show you how to:-
- Set traces on the TEMS component
- How to increase the size and number of log files
- How to check that the trace which has been set is being used by the TEMS
Direct link to YouTube: http://ow.ly/G7i72
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In today’s instalment, I am going to show you all the new features and fixes that have been added to the ITM product this year (2014).
I have broken them all down by version and fix pack, so you can see which ones you have (and didn’t know about) and the ones you could obtain by upgrading.
As you can see by the time line above, there has been a constant trend of... [More]

ITM 6.3 Fix Pack 4 has arrived! All the info you need to download now and get the benefits of the new fix pack! Happy downloading!!!
LIVE and direct Download links, APAR and packages all listed below!
Happy downloading!!!
All of the links in the below tables are live. They will take you directly to the download location of the package you require, or the IBM official technote for one of the APARs included in this fix pack (if you wish to know more about the APAR)
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It all starts with what you name your situations. If you do not have unique names you could potentially cause greater problems for yourself and your environment.
Problem description:
When creating the name of a situation the ITM6.3 FP02 manual says:
‘The situation name can contain any UTF-8 characters and can be up to 256 bytes long. The number of characters allowed varies depending on the characters used, because some UTF-8 characters require more than one... [More]

ITM 6.23 Fix Pack 5 is the latest and greatest release for this code stream in 2014! All the info you need to download now and get the benefits of the fix pack!
Happy downloading!!!
All Download links, APAR and packages are listed below!
All of the links in the below tables are live. They will take you directly to the download location of the package you require, or the IBM official technote for one of the APARs included in this fix pack (if you wish to know more about the APAR)
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Quickly pull all the information you need on IBM C&SI software Vs the supported operating systems. Easy way to make sure you always have the latest information at your fingertips in just a few clicks.
Its that time again..you are planning an upgrade, or audit time and you need to find out the supported platforms for your IBM software to run on. This method is a very quick and easy way to generate a single report that displays all the combinations of supported software Vs... [More]

As an IBM Support Team, we see a lot of questions raised by clients trying to locate their software for download on Passport Advantage.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/
I will give a few examples of ways to find the elusive catalog number:
1) Check the products KnowledgeCenter - for example, here is ITCAM for Applications
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JRN_7.2.0/com.ibm.itcama.doc_7.2/downloaddoc/DownloadDocument_itcamforapplications72.html
Each agent is listed along... [More]

One of the first things we often ask when we look at pmr is a pdcollect.
I know that this is sometimes frustrating to have to send as it can be large and it can be hard to get from non local machines.
Well I am going to try and explain why we need the pdcollects and what we do with them when we get them.
Usually we ask for a full pdcollect so we have everything that we need and so we do not have to keep asking for different files or information about the environment.
It is now possible... [More]

Always wanted to know what ITM agents are supported on each different OS flavour and level? This is your one stop shop.
I have created dynamically updating reports, so the information in them will always be up-to-date and relevant the moment you open it. These links are a great help when checking environments or planing for upgrades etc.
These reports have been created in the IBM... [More]

What's supported , what's not? Find yourself wondering this, here you can find the answers in one neat place.....
Software product compatibility reports contain all supported versions of IBM Software and related Operating Systems.
Here you will discover how easy it is to obtain this info.........(step-by-step)
Click on below link that takes you to home page for the reports...
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As ITM 6.3 fix pack 3 has just been released, I know many of you will be planning upgrades in the near future. Here are a few tips and features that can really improve the speed, capacity usage and capabilities of warehousing in ITM. There is even a neat little feature to send data directly to analytics tools outside of the warehouse entirely, thus offsetting load on your database (win, win).
This blog is tacking a slightly different tact to the how to/deep dive information I usually post, but I feel this... [More]